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Unitrends Backup for Microsoft Azure
Azure Backup for Complete Resilience
Safeguard your critical Microsoft Azure workloads with reliable multicloud backup and rapid recovery to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery for your organization. Unitrends Backup for Microsoft Azure backs up VMs to the secure, immutable Unitrends cloud at a cost 30% lower than native solutions.
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Eliminate the Risk of Backing Up Azure in Azure
Microsoft faces an average of 1,435 cyberattacks per day, and in 98% of cases, the attackers hit the backups first. Keeping backups in Azure increases their risk exposure. Unitrends gets your backups out of Azure and into the Unitrends Cloud, making them invisible to attackers.
Dependable, Verifiable Backup and Recovery
Built on a 30-year legacy of proven backup technology, Unitrends Backup for Microsoft Azure delivers reliable backup and recovery for Azure virtual machines (VMs). It provides unparalleled resilience with features like multicloud continuity, daily screenshot verification, automated DR testing, and streamlined recovery.
Purpose-Built for Azure VM Continuity
Unitrends Backup for Microsoft Azure offers a turnkey experience for protecting your critical Azure data. Automated, hourly backups are stored in-region for fast recovery of files, folders and VMs inside of Azure. A secondary copy is replicated to the immutable Unitrends Cloud for instant spin-up in a disaster recovery scenario.
Comprehensive Flat-Fee Solution, Low TCO
Public cloud costs are variable and unpredictable. Unitrends Backup for Microsoft Azure removes the guesswork associated with cloud costs by offering a transparent monthly subscription fee that covers all backup and recovery-related costs, including egress and failover to the Unitrends cloud.
Simplified Management, Powerful Automation
Unitrends Backup for Microsoft Azure removes the complexity associated with full-scale continuity in the cloud by enabling users to perform self-service recovery of files and Azure VMs and automating key tasks to prove backup success and recoverability, all backed by 24/7 technical support.
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Get Pricing & DetailsKey Features of Unitrends Backup for Microsoft Azure
Multicloud Continuity
Regain access to cloud snapshots from agents that are mistakenly or maliciously deleted. Isolated from production and invisible to Azure attackers, Unitrends Cloud provides redundancy and protects data with immutable storage and innumerous technical safeguards.
Cloud Deletion Defense
Regain access to cloud snapshots that are mistakenly or maliciously deleted. Unitrends Cloud Deletion Defence acts as a recycle bin in the cloud, providing you with a window to recover this valuable data.
Screenshot Verification
Ensure Azure backups are healthy and recoverable with automatic, daily screenshot verification. Eliminate the uncertainty of testing in the cloud and recover Azure VMs with confidence.
Immutable Storage
Eliminate the fear of alteration and guarantee the integrity of your Azure backups with immutable backup storage in the Unitrends Cloud. No external source can change, modify, or delete backups stored in the cloud.
Disaster Recovery Testing
Instantly deploy test virtualizations in the Unitrends Cloud to validate recovery points with customizable resource allocation. Convert instant virtualizations into file restores or export images back to Azure for subsequent restoration.
Rapid Self-Service Recovery
Boost operational efficiency and meet recovery plan objectives with granular recovery of files and folders, instant virtualization of VM images in the Unitrends Cloud or restoration of images to Microsoft Azure, all from a single unified interface.
Ransomware Detection
Stay protected from ransomware with built-in, native monitoring using our proprietary behavioural analysis. If ransomware is detected, administrators receive proactive alerts notifying them to take immediate action.
Infinite Retention
Customize retention to meet compliance, regulatory and insurance requirements for your organization. Choose from retention periods of 1 year, 7 years or infinite retention of your Azure backups.
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Schedule a DemoFrequently Asked Questions About Azure Backup
Azure backup is the process of creating and storing backup copies of Microsoft Azure cloud data so that it may be restored in the event of data loss or corruption. Servers hosted in Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) can be protected at the file and folder level, virtual machine level and with application-specific backups (i.e., SQL). This functionality enables organizations to protect their critical Azure data in a way that best suits their needs.
Microsoft Azure follows the shared responsibility model (SRM), a cloud security framework that outlines the responsibilities of service providers and customers. Under this model, the service provider and its customers share the responsibility of securing the platform and everything in it. As such, Microsoft is responsible for the security of the cloud platform and its infrastructure, such as hardware, networks and services. On the other hand, customers are responsible for protecting their data and other assets stored in Azure.
Customers maintain varying degrees of responsibility over applications, networking, accounts, etc., depending on the workload deployment types — Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or an on-premises data center. However, regardless of the deployment type, you always have certain responsibilities as a customer, including data, endpoint, account and access management.
Azure backup with Unitrends works by installing an agent on the virtual machines within Azure that you wish to protect. The agent facilitates hourly replication to the Unitrends Cloud, where data is stored immutably in a private and secure Unitrends data center. Automatic, daily screenshot verification certifies backups as healthy and recoverable. This solution minimizes single-cloud risk by providing rapid recovery and instant virtualization in the Unitrends Cloud in the event of downtime, cyberattack or other cloud outages.
All Azure backup data stored in the Unitrends Cloud is protected with AES 256-bit encryption. Whether in-flight or at-rest, all data is encrypted to ensure its security and integrity so that it is ready and available when you need it.
Azure backups in the Unitrends Cloud are stored on immutable blocks. No external source can modify or delete backups stored in the cloud. In addition, Cloud Deletion Defense offers another layer of protection to safeguard your data. Should an agent or backup be mistakenly or maliciously deleted from your management portal, Cloud Deletion Defense acts like a recycle bin in the cloud. This feature provides a window of time during which you can recover the data with the help of our cloud support team.
Azure backup from Unitrends is priced based on the managed disk capacity of your protected VMs (in 500GB increments) and the desired retention period (e.g., 1 year, 7 years or infinite). There are no additional charges for backup storage, replication to the Unitrends Cloud (egress), restores, screenshot verification, DR testing or DR failover into the Unitrends Cloud.
Unitrends Backup for Microsoft Azure stores a backup on a private tenant within the same Azure region as your production machines. A backup copy is also replicated to the secure, private Unitrends Cloud. Replication to the Unitrends Cloud provides data center redundancy within the same region as your Azure tenant for data sovereignty.